Born prematurely in Truro while her parents were on holiday in Cornwall,[6] Beaumont grew up with a single mother[4] in the Spring Bank area of Hull. She later lived in the town of Hessle, near Hull.[7][8] Her mother, playwright Gill Adams, won the Fringe First Award for best new play in 1997 at the Edinburgh Festival.[9] She attended Hessle High School,[10] before going on to Wyke Sixth Form College.[11] Beaumont worked at the meat counter of Asda on Hessle Road, West Hull,[5] and later went on to the University of Hull, graduating with a degree in drama studies.[8]
After university, she briefly worked as a teaching assistant. When one of her first acting jobs after university fell through, Beaumont took on a job as a cleaner at the university to make a living, leading her to joke later that she was probably the only person with both a BA and an NVQ from the University of Hull.[12][5]
Beaumont is known for her observational comedy about her home city of Hull including the local dialect and food such as patties and chip spice.[12] Her on-stage persona delivers deadpan anecdotes and has been described as "ditzily naïve".[19]
She co-wrote and starred in the radio sitcom To Hull and Back, starring fellow Hull actor Maureen Lipman. The sitcom started with a pilot on BBC Radio 2 in 2014, and a full series was ordered.[22] Three series of the show were broadcast between 2015 and 2018.[23] She wrote an article in The Guardian about Hull in 2015 as it prepared to be UK City of Culture.[24] In 2017, Beaumont presented the BBC Two documentary Welcome to Hull – City of Culture 2017.[25] Beaumont is also the narrator in the 2018 BBC documentary Hull's Headscarf Heroes about Lillian Bilocca and the 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster.[26] Beaumont said that the story moved her especially because her grandparents and their families were "born and bred in the fishing community on [Hull's] Hessle Road."[27]
A comedy series, Meet the Richardsons, written by Beaumont and Tim Reid was broadcast on Dave from February 2020;[33] it is a documentary-style sitcom with Beaumont and Richardson playing exaggerated versions of themselves.[34] A two-part Christmas Special aired from 9 December 2020[35] and a second series followed in April 2021. The third series began broadcasting in March 2022, with the fourth series airing from 6 April 2023. A fifth series began broadcasting in April 2024 at a time when it was later revealed Lucy and Jon had seperated.
In 2021, Channel 4 commissioned a comedy series called Hullraisers from Beaumont, co-written with Anne-Marie O'Connor and Caroline Moran.[36][37][38] Beaumont also released her first book Drinking Custard: Diary of a Confused Mum, which details her struggles with her pregnancy and motherhood.[6][39]
In 2022, Beaumont appeared in an episode of the revival series of The Weakest Link, hosted by Romesh Ranganathan. She was voted out in round 3.
Beaumont was a contestant in the 16th series of Taskmaster, broadcast September–November 2023. She was placed last.[40]Den of Geek's Louisa Mellor praised her as consistently funny and interesting for her "child-like joy" during tasks and strange anecdotes from her childhood.[41]
In 2024, Beaumont told a story on the panel show Would I Lie to You? (and later on episode 237 of the comedy podcast Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster)[42] about pretending to have type 1 diabetes to get food on a plane. The diabetes research charity JDRF condemned the show's use of the story for humour, however it turns out she is actually diabetic.[43]
Since 2024, Beaumont has co-hosted the Lucy & Sam'sPerfect Brains podcast with Sam Campbell.[44]
Charity work
In 2019, Beaumont set up the project "Backpack Buddies" in Hull to help children in need of meals during the school holidays.[5][45] To raise funds for the project, Beaumont staged the HULLarity comedy gala in June 2019.[46]
Beaumont supports several UK charities, including Hull Children's University,[47] Mothershare[48] and the Great Laugh campaign.[18][5]
Personal life
Beaumont married comedian Jon Richardson in April 2015 after being match-made by fellow comedian Roisin Conaty.[49] They have a daughter born in 2016.[50][5] Beaumont and Richardson announced their separation in April 2024.[51][52]
In 2023, she stated publicly that she had been diagnosed with ADHD.[53]
^"Wyke 6th Form College – Hull – East Yorkshire". Wyke 6th Form College. Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022. The first episode of "Hullraisers" is broadcast on Channel 4 this evening...The series is co-written by former Wyke student Lucy Beaumont...After studying A levels in English and Drama, Lucy progressed on to Hull University to complete her Drama degree.
